Steam releases · Week 18, 2022

Who takes the attention in this window · releases grouped by the observed scale of their publisher

WEEK 18 ’222 May – 8 May 2022201 releasesMTWTFSS

week 18 of 2022 at a glance

In week 18 of 2022 (2 – 8 May 2022), 201 games released on Steam, and 26 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Magical Girl Celesphonia (21,612 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (193 releases), it is 4 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	201
With a playable demo	26
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,632
Free to play, of 200 with a known price	18 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

16%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

19%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

156

60%

——too few

Class is the observed scale of a publisher’s portfolio: the median review count of what they released over the last 36 months. Budgets are invisible to us, so these are not the industry’s AAA and AA labels.Peak players is the highest concurrent count since release. “Kept at 5w” compares the fifth week against the first-week peak, counting only releases with at least 20 concurrent players.Concurrent players are observed from 2026-07-19 onward. Releases before that date have no player columns, and that is a gap in our watching, not a zero.

Game	Release	Followers
Magical Girl Celesphonia	2022-05-06	21,612
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter	2022-05-04	15,549
Bakery Simulator	2022-05-03	9,488
Ampersat	2022-05-06	7,016
GameMaker	2022-05-03	5,558
Nightmare of Decay	2022-05-03	4,577
Eternal Edge+ Prologue	2022-05-05	3,979
U-ena -Far fireworks-	2022-05-08	3,660
Denos City: Complete Game	2022-05-05	2,147
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor	2022-05-05	2,095